"I've got a huge amount of respect for Madonna - she's often labelled a control freak but she's just a perfectionist. There's a difference between looking tacky and artistic, and I think Madonna looks incredible. You can celebrate your body whatever age you are - there's no limit," said Turner, who recreated the poses for Closer magazine.
It was all about Madonna for me. She inspired me to want to sing, to dance, to work hard. I saw those pictures of her running in the park, training, and I thought, that’s what I need to be doing. I’m a girl living in the Bronx at this point. I’ve never seen the inside of a gym, but I thought, I’m going to find myself a track. It wasn’t a moment on stage that did it, it was a picture of Madonna in the park.
To get the meaning behind it all, EW talked with video director Alek Keshishian, the man behind the famous 1991 tour documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare. It was that documentary that prompted Gomez to recruit Keshishian for the “Hands to Myself” video. And while traces of the film aren’t readily apparent here, his ability to add layers to things people prefer to view simply — ahem, say, celebrities — comes across clearly. “I always like to find a different way of seeing a celebrity,” he says. “[And] Selena’s head was in the same place.”
It comes off in his attention to detail, too. Take, for instance, the fact that Gomez wears a diamond ring during her visit to Mason’s home. “In my experience, a lot of these stalkers think that they’re married to that person,” he says. And while more than one person has drawn dotted lines between the closet featured here and that of one Mr. Christian Grey, Keshishian promises that film wasn’t an influence. With a laugh he admits, “I’ve never seen Fifty Shades of Grey. I just thought it was a way to quickly make it seem like it was somebody who had money and success.”
